River of Days

synopsis

On a light table, people, places and things lend one another their contours. Hundreds of backlit photographs, piled atop one another and interspersed with Super 8 abstractions, loosen their moorings in time: the everyday life of places, objects and people, by turns impassive and bizarre, glimmers through flickering lights and reflections. Days settle into a semblance of flow composed of motionless moments.

“I’m a street photographer, I film all the time, I’m never quite sure how it’ll end up.” — Mark Street

Source: Filmmaker Magazine.

biography

Mark Street (1963) is an American director, producer and lecturer. He teaches at Fordham University at Lincoln Centre in New York. He has been working in film, video art and art installations for over thirty years. He makes experimental, feature and documentary films, influenced by street photography. These include Rockaway (2005), Collision of Parts (2010) and Clear Ice Fern (2023). The Ji.hlava IDFF screened his film Winterwheat (1989).

film details

director:	Mark Street
producer:	Mark Street